Glenn Greenwald has a great piece up today about how religious nut Mike Huckabee met up with some other religious nuts in Israel, to, well, be nuts and religious together.  As my mother used to say, sweetly and surreptitiously, about especially striking unattractive couples, “It’s nice they found each other.”

Each day I’m astonished at the unnatural, eyeball-searing couplings occurring with nauseating frequency on the right; health care billionaires and Medicare-dependent retirees, preachers and whoremongers, and eliminationist Christians and “unperfected” Jews.  Nobody has suffered from beer goggles more astonishingly than these Republicans, where if lions didn’t routinely lay down with lambs, the lambs would pretty much  never get laid, and not just because of their obesity, advanced age, and disturbing personality traits.

Cloaked in the usual deceptive and focused-grouped talking points that are whispered like pillow talk to the victims, er, dates, by charlatans like Huckabee, suddenly Israel’s decision to move more crazy people in yarmulkes and beards into Palestinian land to push out the Palestinians has become nothing more than a matter of not “telling Israelis where they should live”.  (Nice hook…  works into the property rights angle of which the Right is so enamored, except for the inconvenient fact that it’s not their property, a fact which remains unchanged despite that even though they’re authoritarian, religious, crazy, and as such quite appealing to loons like Mike Huckabee, the Israeli religious right’s claim to a divine right to things that aren’t theirs is laughable on its face, according to the UN and almost all normal nations.

Along comes that uppity Schvartze, Obama, and the next thing you know some quiet peeps are being gingerly made made about, well, illegal colonization and subjugation of native populations, and Huckabee’s running around committing what would have been considered irredeemable treason back in the Bush Era… bashing “America” on “foreign soil.”  Who among us could ever have predicted this?  That’s a trick question, of course.

Now, experience has shown me that Jews, like the rest of us, have their flaws, but stupidity is not among them, and allying themselves with the “Left Behind” crowd, seems uncharacteristically retarded, or just deeply cynical: religious crazies of whatever stripe the world over have more in common with each other than they do with normal people, and Heck, lots of money is to be made while everybody fights, bloodily, expensively and interminably, for their own personal spaghetti monster.  Ridiculous arguments are, inexplicably, so much more winnable when one simply says, “God Said so.”  Cut to commercial.

The fact that Obama seems to be so deserving of “off soil” of criticism from nuts like Huckabee and the Israeli Right is of course overblown and manufactured, but it is one of the few bright spots in an ostensibly liberal  Presidency that so far has offered thinking Americans precious few of them.  When crazy Israelis are calling Obama both a schvartze and an Arab, proudly and simutaneously, while Huckabee feels the overwhelming need to head on over and buck them up, it’s not the worst thing; however mildly, Obama is finally pissing off the right people.  For a Change.